KEYnote Magazine Articles

A quick overview of what licenses have been sold and which ones are about to expire can help sales teams create the right strategies…

Wibu-Systems was founded in 1989 with the aim of developing simple and easy-to-use software protection systems. The idea was to protect…

Maybe you‘ve read my article “Software protection from a hacker‘s perspective“ in one of the last issues of KEYnote. In this article I…

The Embedded Development Kit for VxWorks is the result of a collaboration between Wind River, Emerson and Wibu-Systems. The EDK allows…

Virtualization was already making headway in the 90s, it’s impossible to imagine the IT world of today without it. The key benefits…

Many trends come. Some stay, others find a niche, but most disappear for good. It can be just as fatal for an organization to miss a…

Practically every piece of software processes data in some way or antoher. Depending on the actual application, the data may contain a…

Software development is a time consuming and costly business for a software vendor. The end product often contains extensive specialist…

Activation-based solutions such as CmActLicenses are very much state-of-the-art. Hardware-based solutions like the CmDongle, on the…

“I use standard certificates so I’m safe.” The only safe thing to say about this statement is that one cannot safely say if it’s true…

In 2010 Wibu-Systems signed a cooperation agreement with 3S-Smart Software Solutions to integrate its protection technology into the…

CodeMeter is driverless but we recommend you install the CodeMeter runtime with administrator rights. How does this fit together?…

You are about to release a new version of your software which contains innovative ideas and state-of-the-art technology. However your…

Мы должны знать намерения своих врагов. “You need to know the arguments of your enemies” replied an aristocratic landowner in a Russian…

In a world where product piracy is becoming ever more prevalent, full protection against piracy, reverse engineering and manipulation…

Software protection is not only relevant to PC software. There are also important reasons for protecting PLC software: machines and…

With subsidiaries in the USA and China and sales offices in England, Ireland, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as…

How good is good software protection? As a software developer what do I need to think about during development to make sure my software…

At the turn of the century, ASP (Application Service Providing) was all the rage. “Customers won’t buy and download software in the…

CodeMeter SmartBind describes the new concept to bind licenses, i.e. digital rights, to a computer or other specific device. CodeMeter…